Plate Tectonics
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| Plate Tectonics | geological theory that states the pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant slow motion
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| Inner Core | dense ball of solid metal inside Earth
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| Outer Core | layer of molten metal that surrounds the inner core
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| Mantle | a layer of hot rock
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| Crust | layer of rock that forms the Earth's outer skin
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| Pangea | supercontinent mean "all lands"
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| Alfred Wegener | his theory was all continents where all one land mass and then drifted apart- many did not accept it
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| Continental Drift | continents slowly moved over Earth's surface
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| Radiation | the transfer or energy through empty space
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| Conduction | heat transfer by direct contact
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| Seafloor Spreading | The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor
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| Mid-ocean ridge | The undersea mountains chain where new ocean floor is produced
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| Convergent boundary | The place where 2 plates have come together
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| Divergent boundary | The place where 2 plates move apart
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| Transform boundary | The place where 2 plated have slipped past one another
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| Lithosphere | A rigid layer made of the uppermost part of the mantle and crust
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| Asthenosphere | The soft layer of the mantle on which the lithosphere floats
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| Subduction | process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench
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| Fault | breaks in the earth's crust that have slipped past each other
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| Rift Valley | deep valley that forms along a divergent boundary
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| Convection | heat transfer by movement of heated fluids
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